Okay new thread from your favourite French serving girl AKA J.
Although I realised that some of my school whackings were more for the benifit of the teacher than for disciplinary reasons I do not bear a grudge and would have no trouble meeting any of them again.
If thats how they got their kicks and it kept us all in line then San faire rien....
What do you lot think?

To be honest I can't say if I bear a grudge or not.
The teacher who slippered me twice got turned on by it,
you could tell he got real enjoyment from it.
So really the way I look at it, he was the one with the
problem. But if I came face to face with him now, I don't
know how I would react.

Mimi and Paul, an elderly English teacher at my school used to belt the daylights out of kids in my class for minor mistakes. He had a reputation for this activity.

He did it once too often and got decked for his trouble.

I waas in his class but I got on well with him. Perhaps it may have had something to do with the fact that the kid who decked him 5 years earlier was a good friend of mine and I told him that.

I was punched in the stomach by a teacher when I was 14. Eight years later I returned the favour when I saw him drinking in a pub. Discipline is one thing, abuse is another and that was my reason for evening the score.

Hi Mimi

Careful with those flies, you've had trouble with those before, haven't you!

At the grammar school in Essex I went to in the late 40s/early 50s most of the masters slippered - sometimes 4/5 boys a lesson. It was so common that none of us felt we'd been picked on which didn't leave any real feelings of resentment or injustice.

The exception for me was when I was caned for the first time at age eleven. I had been playing truant for a week so I well deserved it and to be perfectly honest the old headmaster could hardly have whacked me any softer - it took to the 4th whack before I even answered that it had hurt (he asked me after each tap!) The next two were about the same as number four so only half had even been felt!

The strange thing is that for years after all I wanted to do was to get my own back on that poor old bug..r! I think it was the fact that it was the silence of his study, the way I had had to bend over across his knees for it (which shows you how hard he could bring a cane down in that position!) and the general solemness of the occasion.

I've got over it long-since and as he'd be about 105 now I doubt if I'll ever meet him in a bar somewhere, but if I did I think I'd have to apologise for all the blood-thirsty thoughts I'd had about him for so many years!

That was all a bit dodgy, still if a bit of perving saved abit of pain......
Was his name George by any chance?

I've no idea, Mimi, thinking about it since though - I wouldn't be surprised!

Last week I attended the funeral of an ex Chelsea teacher (96yrs). At school I never had the pleasure, or not, of being in his class, he taught woodwork, something considered of no use to girls He also ran the after school table tennis club which proved hugely popular, the bats for this activity were constructed in the woodwork class, on occasions given to an additional use on the trousered seat of some miscreants

He, like many of his day , was a teacher, who bought out the best in a pupils ability, highly respected, but one who tolerated a no nonsense attitude, for those that fell foul of him and others alike, no one held a grudge over and done with, an accepted part of the education system on both sides.


Similarly I don’t hold a grudge against those who physically punished me. The only anger that buried deep, were to those teachers that took great delight in constantly ridiculing and belittling me, and to this day, have never worked out the criteria some had, towards the few chosen few handed such treatment, they made what should have been happy days ones of misery, they never did then or since gained my respect.

Ketta

I can understand your feeling of resentment Ketta, towards the teachers
who ridiculed and belittled you, I also experienced the same treatment
myself, from a few teachers.
It erodes your confidence. But I firmly believe teachers who did/do this,
do it because they have such a low opinion of themselves it gives them
a feel good factor.

You took the words out of my keyboard:-)
Its as true in adult life as in school, the world is full of inadequates who just love to knock someone who is having a go,

KETTA

I'm not surprised to hear that certain pieces of dog excrement posing as human beings have caste shadows on your life,too. Sad isn't the word for it or them.

I wonder if this is a British trait. The number of heroes in public life that we build up & then smash to pieces is beyond belief.

I think John Lennon was right on, as ever:-

"They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool,
'Til you're so ****in' crazy
You can't follow their rules."


Steve M